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National guidance

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• Safeguarding vulnerable adults - a toolkit for general practitioners
  BMA 2011
• Safeguarding Adults: The role of health services
  DOH 2011
• CR160. Good Psychiatric Practice: Confidentiality and Information Sharing (2nd edition)
  RCPsych 2010
• CR161. Revalidation and Guidance for Psychiatrists
  RCPsych 2010
• CR157. Good Psychiatric Practice: Continuing Professional Development
  RCPsych 2010
• Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making
  GMC 2010
• Research guidance
  GMC 2010
• Confidentiality
  GMC 2009
• CR154. Good Psychiatric Practice
  RCPsych 2009
• Medicines adherence: involving patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence
  NICE 2009
• Consent guidance: patients and doctors making decisions together
  GMC 2008
• 0-18 years: guidance for all doctors
  GMC 2008
• CR146. Vulnerable Patients, Safe Doctors: Good Practice in our Clinical Relationships
  RCPsych 2007
• Good Medical Practice
  GMC 2006
• CR82. Guidance for researchers and for research ethics committees on psychiatric research involving human participants
  RCPsych 2000